Horseshoe



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LYMAN CARRIER AND LYMAN E. CARRIER, OF MINOOKA, ILLINOIS.

HOIRSELSHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303265, dated August12, 1884.

Application filed August I, 1883 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LYMAN CARRIER and LYMAN E. CARRIER, of Minooka, inGrundy county, and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States,have invented certain Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a plan view on the top; Fig. 3,a cross-sectional view through the toe-call: and shoe; Fig. 4, a sideview of a roar call: and shoe; Fig. 5, a orossseetional view of the shoeover the center of a rear calk.

This invention relates to certain improve ments in horseshoes; and itconsists in pro viding the upper face of the shoe with means forpreventing any movement of the hoof on the face of the shoe to break offthe nails.

Referring to the drawings, S represents the shoe proper. The uppersurface of the shoe is provided with the integral concentric sharpenedridges n 1;, (shown in Figs. 2 and 5,) which are intended to embedthemselves into the hoof when the shoe is nailed on for the (No model.)

purpose of preventing the hoof from moving or sliding about on the shoeto break off the nails. used, and they may be continuous or not, asmaybe desired. The calks c and a may be removable, and held in place bymeans of rivets v1. and 1? between flanges c c", and in inortises I), ornot, as may be desired. The rivets, which are pointethd raw the CitlliSdown tightly into place (see Figs. 3 and 5) when driven in. The ridges o2; may be applied to any kind of a horseshoe, and constitute theinvention in this case.

Any number of these ridges may be

